Sharing Ecological Responsibility: Role of Fiction and the Interactive Web

Abstract

Climate change is the reality of contemporary times which has many speakers but few protectors. But there are some fiction writers who rose upto the occasion and looked beyond the confines of fiction to delve deep into the contemporary challenges. Amitav Ghosh is one such fiction writer who remembers his social responsibility and produces great works of non fiction from time to time. A researcher, historian, and an anthropologist, Ghosh has a love for deep research on subjects that interest him. A writer who does not believe in borders and boundaries, Ghosh blurs them in his fiction and non fiction alike. Besides Ghosh, many other writers like Arundhati Roy have expressed their concern for climate change. While Arundhati Roy voices her concern on subjects ranging from nuclear bombs to ill effects of dam building, Ghosh’s novels as well as non fiction are testimony to his deep concern for ecology and climate change.The Hungry Tide is one such work which conveys the climate change message through an engrossing tale of the people of Sundarban delta. The Great Derangement , his non fictional treatise on climate change and our ignorance of this stark reality.